Revision history for swarm

0.2.0.0 - 2022-11-01

A bunch of small fixes and improvements; special thanks to new contributors @0xcefaedfe, @kostmo, @ussgarci, and @valyagolev. Notable changes include:

• New UI features:
  • REPL improvements:
    • Expose the last evaluated result as it, and previous results as itN (#734)
    • Allow clicking in the REPL input to move the cursor (#750)
    • Autocomplete entity names in the repl (#798)
    • REPL cursor no longer blinks when REPL panel is not selected (#801)
  • Improve user experience around quitting & moving between tutorial challenges (#754)
    • Add a button to the Quit dialog to restart a scenario. (#767)
    • Use scenario name as Goal dialog title (#774)
  • autoplay flag for automatically demonstrating scenario solutions (#792)
  • Improved inventory sorting and user-controllable sort criteria (#793)
  • Ability to temporarily hide robots so you can see what's under them (#802)
• New language features:
  • New void type (#735)
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix bug in the first tutorial challenge that froze the game and ate all memory if the user said anything other than expected (#762, #810)
• Documentation:
  • Generate all wiki "cheat sheets" automatically (#769)
• Support for building on GHC 9.4 (#752)

There were several other small fixes and improvements; see the full changelog here.

0.1.1.0 - 2022-10-14

A couple new features and an important bugfix for the Hackage release.

• Update to hsnoise-0.0.3, fixing some world generation bugs that only showed up in the Hackage release. (#746)
• New "blank" creative scenario (#741)
• REPL improvements
  • Ctrl-D at an empty REPL prompt now triggers a quit (#743)
  • The REPL panel now persists in showing the type of the most recently evaluated expression (#733)

0.1.0.1 - 2022-10-06

A bugfix release for a few minor bugs that plagued the first release:

• Fall back to to the swarm data directory when a run file is not found (#730)
  • This bug caused the move tutorial to be unplayable because it tried to execute run "data/scenarios/Tutorials/move_system.sw"
• Fix version check when there is no GitInfo (#729)
  • This bug caused the game to always report that there was a new version available even when you already had the latest (and only!) version.

0.1.0.0 - 2022-10-06

First Swarm release! Swarm already has:

• a programming language based on the polymorphic lambda calculus + recursion, with a command monad for describing first-class imperative actions
• scenarios which can be loaded from YAML files
  • the release comes with official challenges and an in-game tutorial
  • the default Classic and Creative modes use the same YAML syntax
  • we include JSON schemas for editor support when writing scenarios
• procedural 2D world generation
• LSP server built into the Swarm executable
• Terminal UI interface
  • running the executable opens the Main menu by default
  • game screen with a world view, inventory and REPL
    • popup windows for messages, challenge descriptions, etc.